PMBOK® Guide – Seventh Edition

AND The Standard for Project Management

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) – Seventh Edition
Over the past few years, emerging technology, new approaches, and rapid market changes
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disrupted our ways of working, driving the project management profession to evolve. Each
industry, organization and project face unique challenges, and team members must adapt
their approaches to successfully manage projects and deliver results.

With this in mind, A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) –
Seventh Edition takes a deeper look into the fundamental concepts and constructs of the
profession.
A Guide to the Project

and The Standard for Project Management

Including both The Standard for Project Management and the PMBOK® Guide, this edition
presents 12 principles of project management and eight project performance domains
that are critical for effectively delivering project outcomes.
Management Body of Knowledge

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This edition of the PMBOK® Guide: ®
• Reflects the full range of development approaches (predictive, traditional, adaptive,
agile, hybrid, etc.);

• Devotes an entire section to tailoring development approaches and processes;

• Expands the list of tools and techniques in a new section, “Models, Methods, and Seventh Edition
Artifacts”;

• Focuses on project outcomes, in addition to deliverables; and

• Integrates with PMIstandards+™, giving users access to content that helps them apply ANDThe Standard
for Project Management
the PMBOK® Guide on the job.

The result is a modern guide that better enables project team members to be proactive,
innovative, and nimble in delivering project outcomes. ANSI/PMI 99-001-2021

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